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		<title>Flora and the Blade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much of a chance do I really have?
Those moments of civilized privacy&#8211;showering, using the toilet&#8211;seem savage and volatile. I trace the ghosts of scars, long faded, hoping to feel them raise beneath my fingers and prove that they once were&#8211;that they are&#8211;real.
The solitary scar that remains feels like a trap of guerilla warfare, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=139&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Time to Smell the Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before everything turned itself on its side, before the break-up, before rehab stint II, before I found I was suffering at the hands of pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization, I had something.
I secretly hated my job, my family, my boyfriend, myself. Then, out of the blue, I was given the opportunity to take a floristry class.
Surprisingly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=136&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Mistake, Chop it Up into Little Pieces and Feed it to the Dog.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know one of those monumentally stupid mistakes you make and spend the rest of the next day convincing yourself it never happened? That&#8217;s kind of what&#8217;s happening.
I&#8217;d write the details, but do they really matter?
I&#8217;m ambivalent. I&#8217;m sick of living this holier-than-thou hypocritical life. I&#8217;m just like any other teenager. So what if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=133&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Recap of September/October</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 28:
Caleb breaks up with me, for good this time.
I check myself into rehab, again.
I don&#8217;t relapse, as much as I want to.
September 28-October 28:
Spent in rehab, with drug-addict kids.
One girl was being filmed for television.
Constantly told how wrong I&#8217;m living my life.
Go back to working my steps.
October 28:
My mom flips out, pulls me out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=131&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Rubber, You&#8217;re Glue</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/im-rubber-youre-glue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m rubber, you&#8217;re glue. Your words bounce off me and stick to you.&#8221;
Many of us have heard this riposte at one point in our lives, though it may be only a distant memory. Still, it is recently that I have discovered the true value of yet another children&#8217;s meter.
I just spent a month&#8217;s stay in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=129&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dorothy&#8217;s Return Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I trudged along a yellow path painted into the asphalt by the tracks. My tattered and dull ruby slippers flopped against the pavement, my baskets heavy with too many clothes and not enough money. A butterfly was thrown from his path by a passing train. I heard the munchkins chittering behind me, high-pitched commentary on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=127&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catapult</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/catapult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a headache.
It&#8217;s that familiar swollen feeling, frustration mixed with a kind of supression. It&#8217;s thefeeling that the pressure is building, and I can feel the blood pulsing in my temples.
It&#8217;s the feeling I felt as a child, the one I would take pill after pill to relieve. IT&#8217;s the fealing that release cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=123&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consequence</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/consequence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click.
The sound echoed through the empty alleyway. She stopped in her tracks.
&#8220;Scream, and I&#8217;ll cut you.&#8221;
Slowly, she turned.
He was of average height and build, just as the papers said. No distingushing marks, only the switchblade in his hand mimicking the desperate, maniacal glint in his eyes. A sea of insanity, tinted a familiar blue.
They stood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=121&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter To You</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/a-letter-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve known him just as long. You, his on-and-off girlfriend who could always tell I was a little bit more than a friend to him. And me, in some kind of perpetual purgatory, unable to call him &#8220;friend&#8221; because whether he is less or more is still undecided.
You&#8217;ve been his &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; twice. And yet he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=119&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polyamorous</title>
		<link>http://alexandracoffin.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/polyamorous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polyamoury is underrated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexandracoffin.wordpress.com&blog=1794282&post=116&subd=alexandracoffin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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